#ld

Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#memory #philosophy #time #age

And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the absorbing pursuit of the moment will appear, not only to others, but to ourselves, a very short time hence. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#nostalgia #age

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#confess #girlfriend #great #guys #help

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#bees #going #me #old thing #simple

Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks. Maybe God's hands and fingers don't work as well as they used to. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#god #old-age #state-of-the-world #age

I came to feel a tenderness for them all. This was something new to me. It gave me a curious pleasure to touch them, to help them in and out of the chair, to shave their weather-toughened old faces. They had known hard use, nearly all of them. You could tell it by the way they held themselves and moved. Most of all you could tell it by their hands, which were shaped by wear and often by the twists and swellings of arthritis. They had used their hands forgetfully, as hooks and pliers and hammers, and in every kind of weather. The backs of their hands showed a network of little scars where they had been cut, nicked, thornstuck, pinched, punctured, scraped, and burned. Their faces told that they had suffered things they did not talk about.Every one of them had a good knife in his pocket, sharp, the blades whetted narrow and concave, the horn of the handle worn smooth. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#age

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#aging-gracefully #growing-old #age

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip. ↗

— Linda Medley

#children #giants #gossip #profound #wisdom

If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal. ↗

— Steven Merle Scott

#memories #old-age #age

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#copy #old-world #stupid #age